Familiarium colloquiorum opus (etc.).

Description:

Random humorous and witty thoughts on miscellaneous everyday situations (e.g., pregnancy, circumcision, response to sneezes, burning of heretics, recommended responses to prostitutes, and the irrationality of human behavior. But also Erasmus also takes the Catholic Church and its clergy to task for its greed, practice of excommunication, monkish lechery, etc., etc.

subjects: Catholic church,  Renaissance,  Latin prose,  conversation,  speech,  prostitute,  chastity

People: Erasmus

Times: c. 1500